Anton - One question on downhill running: Do you rock back a bit (lean backwards) when you go down or do you retain a perpendicular stance to the terrain? What do you do to lessen the impact on the quads?

The ideal in the Lieh-Tzu is a state, not of withdrawal, but of heightened perceptiveness and responsiveness in an undifferentiated world. My mind concentrated and my body relaxed, bones and flesh fused completely, I drifted with the wind East or West, like a leaf from a tree or a dry husk, and never knew whether it was the wind that rode me or I that rode the wind. -The Book of Lieh-Tzu